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Thinglink:


Thinglink makes your images interactive.


Snap a picture on your Smartphone, upload it to the Thinglink App. Link other photos, web links, videos, or other thinglinks to that image and share with others through thinglink stream or email, Twitter, facebook etc.


Don’t have an image of your own to use? No problem. Upload an image from the web, add icons to the image and link each icon to an appropriate place on the image. Again, share with others, use as presentation tool, or use as a learning tool for students.

Benefits of App:

  • Mobile App is very easy to navigate and self-explanatory
  • Mobile App provides essential creation tools: Users can take pictures with their mobile devices related to projects and immediately link other pictures, documents, videos, etc. from photo gallery, Google +, internet.
  • Dynamic presentation tool - Users can easily plug phone into computer or upload Thinglink to computer for presentation purposes, can link image to larger presentation and can link other presentations to ThinkLink
  • Users can share via twitter, email, Google +, Txt Msg etc.
  • Dynamic teaching and learning tool for teachers and students
  • Compatible with Android and iOS



Constraints of App

  • Limited number of icons in free version
  • Creates exceptionally long URL for Twitter, creating additional steps for upload
  • Images are small on Mobile App, creating a crowded space when adding icons
  • Mobile App has limited tools compared to website. Mobile App allows user to create images and view personal thinglink images. Website allows user to search other thinglinks, track data, and stream other content - features not available on Mobile App.
  • Unless others are familiar with Thinglink, viewers may not know to “touch” image to activate icons

How To Use App

__Thinglink__ how to video:

__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Z41n0OaVw__

Original Artifact App (created by someone in your group):



Below is a screenshot of a Thinglink created using the Mobile App. The relief image demonstrates how the image becomes interactive.


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IDEAS for App - Student USE: Teacher USE or OTHER USE:



Thinglink Teacher Uses:
  • Presentation platform by linking various parts of a lesson to relevant images
  • Interactive history lessons by linking website links, videos, and other images to a map, timeline, or other content
  • Flipped Classroom Tool - Teachers can place all aspects of a lesson to an image with which student can interact at home in preparation for class activity
  • Teachers can model annotation skills on a document for students


Thinglink Student Uses:
  • Students can create class presentations of their learning
  • Students can capture an image with their Smartphone relevant to school projects. They can annotate it or link to it and share with teacher or classmates
  • In flipped classroom, student can learn from thinglink at their own pace